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the best I can with a heart for any fate. We are having a hard fight again a lot of San Francisco politicians speculators
who are trying to spil Yosemite National Park by damming destroying the Hetch Hetchy Valley, a counterpart of Yosemite, for
a reservoir. excluding the public from more than half of the park whose waters drain into H.H. I wish you could help me? in
this. Pinchot is doing all he can in this destructive work against us. All the national parks are in danger By the way Yosemite
Valley is in desperate need of a landscape architect to lay out roads trails thin out the undergrowth of young conifer You
are the only one whose taste I could trust on so grand a job. Would you undertake it if offered? Remember me to all the family
believe me ever faithfully yours John Muir